Student mood proved to have little relationship to evaluating teachers. (JD)

In this study of teacher/course evaluations by college students, the authors found that different stated purposes for the evaluation (student use, instructor use, or administrator use) had no differing effects on student ratings. Graduate teaching assistants received higher ratings than did either assistants or full professors. (MJB)

Student evaluations of their instructors are useful in assessing the quality of instruction. Under appropriate conditions, a positive correlation between the average evaluation and the average student performance indicates that the evaluations are valid. (Author/CJ)

The consequences of using departmentally constructed instruments for student evaluation of faculty was investigated in a university for reliability, validity, and consistency. Results indicated that a great deal of discrepancy exists among departments concerning evaluation factors, appropriate weightings for factors, wording of items, and…

Results are reported from a study involving 141 elementary students which investigated the relationship between students' use of cognitive strategies during social studies critical thinking tasks and their perceptions of classroom instruction. (IAH)

The author found that college students felt that a mid-quarter course evaluation caused some changes in their courses if the instructor conducted discussions of the evaluation results. (ED.)

This paper presents the results of a year-long effort to develop an instrument designed to sample perceptions from secondary-level pupils on a student teacher's classroom performance. (Author)

A causal model of the determinants of students' evaluation of instruction was examined. The model was tested using path analysis and regression analysis in four levels of academic areas. Results are discussed. (Author/DF)

Faculty members in Israel who had previously agreed to have results of student evaluations included in their files were rated more highly by the students than those who decided against it. (JMF)

This study examines the "Student Observation of Teachers and Teaching Techniques" (StOTT) instrument. Results do not support usage of the StOTT by administrators as a teacher evaluation device. (JMF)

Student teachers, after listening to two taped supervisory conferences, rated the more directive supervisory behavior (typified by declarative and expository statements and an authoritarian posture) as more desirable. Discrepancies between these results and those of earlier studies are discussed. (MJB)

Study examined the relationship between elementary students' perceptions of instructional behaviors and use of cognitive strategy during reading comprehension. Students read, then answered questions about, strategy use and teacher behaviors. Teacher behaviors created conditions that influenced strategy use; student interpretations of certain…

It was discovered that community and junior college students considered instructors with little or no teaching experience to be better than those with more experience, and those with little or no teacher training to perform as well or better than other teachers. (Editor/MM)

Implementation of this competency-based data processing course avoided the high start-up costs of self-paced instructional methodology, yet still resulted in increases in (1) levels of student competency, (2) student satisfaction, (3) average grade, (4) positive level of student evaluation of the teacher, and (5) proportion of students completing…

A study compared students' evaluation of their teachers with other means of teacher evaluation and also examined how student characteristics and attitudes, along with different types of teacher behavior, influenced students' ratings. In general, evaluations by the sixth-grade students appeared to be reliable and useful measures of teacher…